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the Semi-apes, with which it is even at present closely 

 allied, through the flying lemurs (Galeopithecus). Of the 

 two orders of flying animals, the insect-eating forms, or 

 Jiying mice (Nycterides), probably developed out of those 

 eating fruits, or flying foxes (Pteroeynes) ; for the latter are, 

 in many ways, more closely allied to Semi-apes than are the 

 former. 



We have now still to discuss the genuine Apes (Simife) 

 as the last order of Mammals; but as, according to the 

 zoological system, the human race belongs to this order, and 

 as it undoubtedly developed historically out of a branch 

 of this order, we shall devote a special chapter to a more 

 careful examination of its pedigree and history. 



